Winston Groom Quotes

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.

And that's all I've got to say about that.

Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

Stupid is as stupid looks.

I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.

Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.

I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.